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Roiling these backwaters are two powerful, charismatic figures, Raphael Hunter, an outright scoundrel, and Albion Pugh, who is more of a chronic liar and gifted fabulist. Both men are effortlessly successful with women: Ramsay loses his wife to Hunter and a beloved cousin to Pugh. He envies Pugh's "capacity to mythologise existence . . . his charm and his whatever it was he had instead of genius...
COVER Detail of Raphael's Madonna del Granduca from Scala/Art Resource...
...glut has never been so thick. Povich, former host of A Current Affair, is just one of half a dozen newcomers elbowing their way into a field already crowded with such long-distance runners-off-at-the-mouth as Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Joan Rivers and the irrepressible Regis & Kathie Lee. Stand-up comic Jenny Jones' new daytime show started off with a bigger initial lineup of stations than any syndicated talk show in history. Montel Williams, a former naval-intelligence officer and motivational speaker, emcees an issue-oriented program currently being test- marketed...
...Raphael Sperry '95 said he actually preferred the relaxed atmosphere at the barbecue to the more formal...
When his wealthy Italian mistress dies, the amoral historian Max Mather inherits first choice from among her trove of paintings. Rummaging around, he finds two panels of aged wood. On them are portraits that have never been cataloged, both by Raphael, and each is worth in excess of $50 million. The Italian government may seize such rare items as national treasures, so Max works a scheme to spirit them out of the country. But this is only the beginning of Masterclass (St. Martin's Press; 330 pages; $19.95). Author Morris West (The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Clowns...